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Jennifer Weiner Talks ‘Good in Bed,’ Chick Lit and Cheating Husbands

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Julie Steinberg

May 24, 2011 10:00 am ET

It’s been ten years since Jennifer Weiner released “Good in Bed,” the book that launched both her career as a novelist and her status as a staunch defender of chick lit. Over the past decade, Weiner has emerged as the conscience of modern fiction, intent on minimizing the disparity between the reception commercial male fiction gets (think Stephen King) and the reception commercial female fiction receives (think Weiner and Jodi Picoult). She also recently got into a bit of tussle with Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Jennifer Egan recently about the divide between literary and commercial fiction. Speakeasy chatted with Weiner in a phone interview about her career over the past decade, the proper time to critique other writers and powerful men who cheat on their wives.